2D/3D laser measuring
From design to the CNC,
without a single invented coordinate.
Measure marble, granite and porcelain worktops with your Leica DISTO, adjust the exact contour in the browser and export it ready to cut — no cardboard template, and no going back to site to re-measure.
This is not an animation: it is the calculation the capture engine does, with the same three distances. The laser returns no coordinates, only distances — and a coordinate only appears when three of them cut at the same point. In plan you see circles; the engine cuts spheres in 3D.
The daily life of a worktop
The cardboard template gets wet, it bends and it lies. The tape measure reads wrong at seven in the evening.
The two routes, side by side, from the first visit to site to the piece fitted.
How it is done today
Cardboard, tape and memory
- Visit 1. Cut the cardboard template on site. 60–90 min.
- Transport. The template travels folded in the van.
- Workshop. Somebody redraws the template in CAD by hand.
- Cutting. The template's error is already inside the stone.
- Visit 2. It does not fit: re-measure, trim it back, or break the piece.
2 visits to site, plus the redraw
With Cadmetry
Laser, browser and DXF
- Visit 1. Shoot the laser vertex by vertex. 10–15 min.
- There and then. The contour appears on screen and gets checked.
- Workshop. The DXF is already in the project: nobody redraws anything.
- Cutting. Cut to what was measured, with its finish and its grain.
- Visit 2. Fit it. And only fit it.
1 visit to site, and the fitting
From site to file
Three steps, and one single source of truth: what the laser measures.
Measure with your Leica DISTO
Connect the meter from the browser itself, over Bluetooth or over the instrument's own WiFi. Every shot goes into the project there and then.
Adjust the contour to the millimetre
Vertices, edges, sink and hob cutouts, corner cuts and grain direction. With undo and redo, on what was really measured.
Export to your CNC
DXF with one layer per edge finish and a PDF for the operator. What comes out of the browser is what goes into the machine.
What the workshop takes away
A project, not a loose drawing.
Cadmetry is not a line editor: it is the complete file on the piece, from the end client to the invoice.
- Contour and dimensions computed by trilateration, never typed in by hand.
- Finish per edge: square, bevelled, half bullnose, ogee or polished square, edge by edge.
- Cutouts for sink and hob, dimensioned against the resolved contour.
- Grain direction saved with the piece, so the slab is cut the right way round.
- Attachments in Google Drive, in the workshop's own account.
- Calendar, clients and billing in the same place as the measuring.
Edge finish
The same vocabulary you already use in the workshop.
Ten days, your workshop, your pieces
The real test is a worktop you have already measured.
Sign up and use Cadmetry for ten days with your own Leica DISTO on a piece whose sizes you already know. Measure it, export the DXF, open it in your CAD and compare it with what you had. It is the only test worth anything: the one done with your material and your machine.
Material
Natural stone or porcelain: the laser does not care, the grain does.
Marble
Strong veining, continuous from piece to piece. The grain angle is saved with the piece so that the cut respects the figure of the slab.
Granite
Even grain and plenty of hardness. Here what rules is an exact contour: reworking granite costs money.
Porcelain
Large formats and thin sections, little room for a template error. The edge usually wants a chamfer or a fine polish.
Stop re-measuring. Start cutting.
Ten days' trial with your own Leica DISTO and your own pieces. If it does not fit your workshop, you will know before you pay anything.